Dr. Meir Margalit (Hebrew: מאיר מרגלית; born 1952) is a human and civil rights activist in Jerusalem.
[2] He was an elected member of the Jerusalem City Council, representing the Left-Wing Meretz Party between 1998 and 2002.
Elected again for Meretz in 2008, he is currently a member of the city council, officially in charge of the East Jerusalem portfolio.
He is known for his staunch criticism of the various Jerusalem mayors for their policies of perceived and realized discrimination towards the Palestinian residents of the city.
[2] Margalit is the author of various books on municipal policy and a frequent speaker and lecturer in many countries around the world.